by Maxwell Dinesen | Feb 10, 2024 | Traditional
The only coach in the history of Michigan high school sports to win at least 200 football games and 400 basketball games, Oscar E “Okie” Johnson led Muskegon Heights High School to six mythical Class A grid crowns and three Class A cage titles over his 37...
by Maxwell Dinesen | Feb 10, 2024 | Traditional
Gus Cohrs established a coaching standard at Grand Haven High School that may never be equaled. His basketball teams were 242-84 (.742) from 1922 to 1939, including seven state championships. In football, the Buccaneers were 51-42 from 1922 to 1933 against a...
by Maxwell Dinesen | Feb 10, 2024 | Traditional
One of the 13 founding members of the Ladies Professional Golf Association, North Muskegon’s Sally Sessions earned her greatest fame as an amateur and professional golfer, but she was also a gifted athlete in other sports. Despite her diminutive stature, she...
by Maxwell Dinesen | Feb 10, 2024 | Traditional
Sonny Grandelius was a versatile backfield threat for Muskegon Heights High School’s successive state champion teams in his junior and senior years of 1945 and 1946. A quarterback in 1945, Grandelius switched to fullback in ’46 and was a first team All-State...
by Maxwell Dinesen | Feb 10, 2024 | Traditional
Muskegon High’s Earl Morrall ranks with Bennie Oosterbaan as one of the area’s finest football stars. Finishing his high school career with a unanimous selection as an All-State quarterback, Earl earned similar honors at the collegiate level by being...
by jesper | Feb 10, 2024 | Traditional
Bennie Oosterbaan, a gridiron legend at the University of Michigan, was arguably the finest athlete produced by the Muskegon area. A three time football All-American at U of M from 1925-27, Bennie, along with Alabama’s Don Hutson, was selected by renowned...
